A Sneak Peak

Yesterday I received an instant message from a high school friend who I hadn't talked to in a while. He asked how law school was and I asked him about his life. Then he told me that someone was suing him for defamation, libel, and $40,000 in damages. AHA! That's where the instant message came from.

Though I can't say for certain, I really doubt there's any merit to this lawsuit. Nonetheless, I had to tell my friend that I wasn't allowed to give legal advice and that he should seek guidance elsewhere. I'm not sure where it's written down, but we are all explictly told that you're not allowed to practice law without a license (though accordingly to Legally Blonde, we can do it with supervision).

At this moment, I realized what the rest of my life might look like. The legal advice giver. "Can you review this contract for me?" "Hypothetically, if I did this, could I get in trouble?" "I can sue, right?" Hopefully I won't have to be anyone's 25 cent call from the county jail house.

I guess I should be happy that I've finally found a way to directly help people around me, even if it'll be a legal tip here or there. I've always been secretly jealous of people with technical and other practical skills. My friends and other people who somehow learned how to fix computers, invent working products, design websites, build things that didn't come out of an IKEA box, and other skills that were tangible. I mean, I always liked my major but I didn't feel like I could help people in my day to day life with my political science knowledge besides come election time when everyone asked me who to vote for or giving tours of the capitol.

So hopefully in a few years, I'll be the resident lawyer. Only one in either side of the family and one of the few amongst my friends so I'm sure I'll be getting many people coming out of the woodwork, like my friend yesterday, asking me for advice. I always liked being the go-to friend for advice, now I'm making a career out of it.